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I built a browser color picker that replaces five separate color tools

I kept switching between separate tools for picking a color, sampling an image, converting formats, generating a palette, and checking contrast. So I built one browser-based workspace that combines them. What

I built a browser color picker that replaces five separate color tools

I kept switching between separate tools for picking a color, sampling an image, converting formats, generating a palette, and checking contrast.

So I built one browser-based workspace that combines them.

What it includes

  • Visual saturation, brightness, and hue controls
  • Screen eyedropper where the browser supports it
  • Pixel sampling from a locally uploaded image
  • Synchronized HEX, RGB, HSL, HSV, and CMYK values
  • Complementary, analogous, triadic, and split-complementary palettes
  • WCAG contrast checks for normal and large text
  • CSS custom property and JSON palette exports
  • Recent colors stored during the current session

Everything runs in the browser. Image files are processed locally, and no account is required.

Live tool:
 Color Picker Olivez

The interface was also an important part of the project. I wanted it to feel like a proper design workspace rather than another form inside a generic calculator card.

I would especially appreciate feedback on two things:

  1. Does the transition from the hero into the color workbench feel natural?
  2. Does the tool expose too many controls at once, or is the layout still easy to understand?
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